Editors:
- Examines howler behavior and ecology within a comparative framework
- Examines behavioral and physiological mechanisms that enable howler monkeys to exploit highly disturbed and fragmented habitats
- Presents models of howler monkey diet, social organization, and mating systems that can inform researchers studying Old World colobines, apes, and other tropical mammals
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects (DIPR)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Behavioral Ecology
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Front Matter
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Conservation and Management
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Front Matter
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About this book
Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) comprise twelve species of leaf-eating New World monkeys that range from southern Mexico through northern Argentina. This genus is the most widespread of any New World primate taxa, and can be found to inhabit a range of forest types from undisturbed rainforest to severely anthropogenically impacted forest fragments. Although there have been many studies on individual species of howler monkeys, this book is the first comprehensive volume to place information on howler behavior and biology within a theoretical framework of ecological and social adaptability. This is the second of two volumes devoted to the genus Alouatta.
This volume:
· Examines behavioral and physiological mechanisms that enable howler monkeys to exploit highly disturbed and fragmented habitats
· Presents models of howler monkey diet, social organization, and mating systems that can also inform researchers studying Old World colobines, apes, and other tropical mammals
These goals are achieved in a collection of chapters written by a distinguished group of scientists on the feeding ecology, behavior, mating strategies, and management and conservation of howlers. This book also contains chapters on the howler microbiome, the concept of behavioral variability, sexual selection, and the role of primates in forest regeneration.
Editors and Affiliations
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Estación Biológica Corrientes, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina
Martín M. Kowalewski
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Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA
Paul A. Garber
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Museum of Zoology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Liliana Cortés-Ortiz
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Centro de Antropología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela
Bernardo Urbani
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Department of Zoology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Dionisios Youlatos
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Howler Monkeys
Book Subtitle: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation
Editors: Martín M. Kowalewski, Paul A. Garber, Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, Bernardo Urbani, Dionisios Youlatos
Series Title: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1960-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1959-8Published: 05 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5603-6Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1960-4Published: 04 December 2014
Series ISSN: 1574-3489
Series E-ISSN: 1574-3497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 440
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Animal Ecology, Behavioral Sciences, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Zoology